before & after: Grange Showroom
For an Evening of Elegance fundraiser benefiting The Foundation for Breast and Prostate Health, we re-imagined a slice of the Grange Showroom in Philadelphia’s Marketplace Design Center. Using Grange’s existing furniture, and only painting one wall, we created an oasis for a fantasy client: a decorator returning from a world-wide shopping trip. (Okay, that’s really just our own fantasy).
Rich autumnal colors, opulent but inexpensive bedding (from HomeGoods, Marshalls, et al.) and layers of animal skin rugs (lent to us by Kroungold’s Furniture) warmed the space. Life-size fashion paintings by Denise Fike mixed with dramatic palm trees and lush flowers from Hoffman Design Group plus Grange’s own orange and black glass chandeliers added drama, while very detailed styling made the space feel like a real diva’s bedroom, down to the lispstick in the drawers and “Sex & The City” video playing on the mini-DVD player.
Our only existing “before” photos for this project are scanned photocopies of original photo film. We’ve since learned our lesson: take lots and lots of photos, preferably digital, both before and after!
